Historically, the prevailing trend in knowledge production on Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Northern Eurasia across disciplines has centered on Russia, which has captured significant attention in the literature, history, and social science research. In this context, the importance of decolonial approaches to understanding Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Northern Eurasia has been underscored, gaining renewed urgency in the analysis of Russia's imperialism.

De-center the focus 

The organizers of the proposed workshop invited participants across various fields to call for a decolonial rethinking of knowledge production and hierarchies in light of Russia's imperialistic actions. Our initiative seeks to de-center the focus of Eastern European, Central Asian, and Northern Eurasian studies from a singular emphasis on Russia/Kremlin, instead amplifying diverse voices from these regions.

Resistance to discursive colonialism

The proposed workshop addresses the necessity of nourishing a critical approach to our own academic practices and stresses the resistance to discursive colonialism, or a scholarly discourse that reproduces power asymmetries and naturalizes them in people's minds.

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